They are promoting majority Sinhalese Buddhist settlement in Sri Lanka’s north and east to the detriment of the predominantly Tamil and Muslim populations’ rights to property and religious ...

In recent years, Sri Lankan government authorities and nationalist Sinhala Buddhist monks have been targeting Hindu as well as Muslim religious ... in northeastern Sri Lanka claimed by nationalist ...

Dr Aru Thirumurugan, Vice President of the All Ceylon Hindu Congress and the Rev Sakthivel, Coordinator of the Highland Social Research Center, among other religious dignitaries, collectively ...

Colombo (AsiaNews) - The construction of new Buddhist temples and the simultaneous cancellation of Hindu places of worship in the north-east of Sri Lanka represent ... based on religion or belief ...

Sri Lanka is overwhelmingly Sinhalese (74.9 percent) and most Sinhalese profess the Buddhist faith. Tamils, who are the largest minority, are mainly Hindu but a sizeable number are Christian.

We stopped to receive the blessings of a roadside Ganpati, the deity considered a remover of obstacles in both Buddhist Sri Lanka and Hindu India ... the lotus is a symbol of purity,” writes ...

Lines for gas have become commonplace across Sri Lanka, often lasting ... and the governance. “Hindu leaders have been less vocal, but certainly Buddhist, Christian, Islam religious leaders ...